b'Tragedy leads to new aviation standardsAfter the anguish of the Great Depression, a difficultreturning home after representing Australian doctors in a time followed for Allen Allen & Hemsley. In 1937 Alfredroyal commission concerning the introduction of a national Hemsley, a firm stalwart for over forty years, died. Hemsleyhealth scheme. Among the passengers were barrister Alfred was seventy-six years of age and had dedicated mostGain, who had previously worked for the firm, and politician of his life to the practice. The same year Wigram HouseCharles Hawker, whom many saw as a possible candidate was purchased by the Mutual Life & Citizens Assurancefor prime minister.Company and was soon demolished. The firm moved to the new APA building in Martin Place. It was not a speedyThe crash provoked a furious reaction from both the move as it took some five weeks to transfer the firmsaviation industry and the public. The government was 50,000 bundles of paper to the new office. Found in thecalled on to explain why ultrahighfrequency radio paperwork was a private letter, written sixty years earlier,beacons that could have prevented the disaster and had that someone had forgotten to post.been installed eighteen months earlier had not yet been turned on. National aviation standards were rewritten in The following year two managing clerks, Lancelot Shirleyresponse to the tragedy, and beam navigation systems and James Massie, were among four crew and fourteenwere introduced on all major routes in Australia. A national passengers killed instantly when their plane crashed intoair traffic control system was established which was then the slopes of Mount Dandenong in thick fog on a flightreplicated around the world.from Adelaide to Melbourne. Shirley and Massie were Two managing clerks were among four crew and fourteenpassengers killed instantly when their plane crashedinto the slopes of Mount Dandenong in thick fog.112'